Community. This is a wonderful post, and timely. We all actually NEED a sense of community, you know, because the alternative is isolation. Isolation, even just FEELING unsupported, or say, buoyed, by a community – it slowly kills.

I adore this post ~ thank you so much. Yesterday I met a new neighbour (to me) an elderly woman with a walker recovering from a knee replacement, stopping to compliment my garden. I delighted in conversing with her for 15 minutes and asking her name (which I promptly wrote on my kitchen calendar to help me remember). Now I look forward to seeing her again around the block and asking how her knee is coming along. I find that there are many common things we enjoy and can build community around, such as a shared joy of gardening, or dogs (dogs parks foster many friendships), and music – for example. Your post here lifts my heart and inspires me to do even more to build community. Thank you again Diana! Hugs, Gina

To be a little cliché and to borrow a well known quote, no man (or woman!) is an island! We all want to be part of something bigger, to make a difference in other people’s lives and to let other’s know when they’ve made a difference in our own! Thanks for this post!

We had such an amazing school community where I worked; unfortunately, budget cuts forced its closure. Sigh. I know I’m moving into another wonderful school, but I will miss what we worked so hard to build together over the years. Community is SOOO important:)

We moved to a fabulous little town last summer and I really want to do more to be involved in the community, but I honestly just haven’t. That has to change.
Husbandio thinks I should be an MP. I told him I wasn’t political and he said, “But you want to make this a better place! That’s all you NEED!”
Hmmm.

I guess I live in a pretty safe and comfortable community but to be honest I have never given it any thought until now reading this post. I have lived here in these townhouses for 24yrs yrs and the townhouses are like a little community we all know each other and keep and eye on each other homes. I park my car on the front lawn and never lock the car my daughter when she is here never locks her car either and I have even gone out and left the house not only unlocked but the door open (not on purpose) but when I go home nothing had been touched everything was fine………..

Yes, in many ways I’m still looking too….You sure seem to have a close family (your brother, dad, daughter) from what I read in your blog.I can imagine how moving a lot can throw you off your kilter though…I hope you find home soon…

I know that feeling of having a community makes my life more complete. The support of friends and sharing thier lives is so important that I feel a huge missing piece in my life when I neglect it. For a while I was having monthly get togethers with many of my female friends. We had a wonderul time but, life being what it is, it seemed to fall on the person who wanted/needed it most (me) to do all of the arranging. I see all of these people individually, but they tell me they miss our group pot lucks. Maybe it just takes one person caring enough to create that feeling and accepting the responsibility of making it happen? Hmm maybe I should pick up the phone? Thanks for the inspiration.

Wow you arranged that? A potluck with a bunch of girlfriends sounds awesome! But I can imagine how hard it would be to arrange it, a little like herding cats to get a day that works for all/most of them!